Had an encounter with a small group of Trumpers, and am left utterly flabbergasted!

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74. I find the problem arguing with brainwashed tRump supporters

They will bring up some crazy conspiracy theory involving the Clintons or Obama. The only way to contradict them is to have all the facts at hand. If you actually take the time to research the “scandal” which they fully believe to be true AND covered up by the “left wing media”, and then go back to them with the facts they will immeadiately pivot to another crazy right wing conspiracy. It’s exhausting. They don’t even seem to realize that their credibility is in tatters because 99.9% of everything they bring to an argument is made up bullshit.

One example: the so called Uranium One scandal. I got in an argument with a RWNJ about this, then I went to snopes to try and get some background on it. I brought that info back to them; oh well, turns out snopes.com is another “fake news liberal media site”! According to them, obviously.

Part of the problem is a complete lack of critical thinking. These people live in a bubble and they don’t question anything they hear in that bubble. What’s that saying? The first step in indoctrinating a cult member is convincing them that everyone else is lying to them.

Whenever I see something here on DU that seems a little fishy, the first thing I do is look for other sources that will confirm or refute what I am looking at. And to the credit of many here, by the time I get back to the thread that piqued my interest, some other DU’er has debunked the story. I wonder how many RW’ers bother to do that?

Critical thinking skills; they better start emphasizing that in school or democracy is essentially done for. We are living in a new world of alternate facts.